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FluxBB
Developer(s)FluxBB.org Developers
Stable release
1.5.0 / May 6, 2012 (2012-05-06)
Preview release
1.5-beta / April 27, 2012 (2012-04-27)
Operating systemPHP / MySQL
TypeInternet forum
LicenseGPL
Websitefluxbb.org

FluxBB is a lightweight free software PHP-based internet discussion board system. FluxBB is a fork of the PunBB project, created in response to developers protesting the increasing emphasis of a partnership with a corporate organization on the PunBB project.[1] As with PunBB, it is released under the GNU General Public License.[2][3][4]

History

FluxBB 1.2

FluxBB is a fork of PunBB which was created by Rickard Andersson. In 2007, PunBB was sold to Informer Technologies.[5] Development continued under the direction of Rickard Andersson until April 2008. At that time Rickard Andersson announced he would be ceasing his active involvement with the project, at least temporarily.

In light of the changed circumstances the remaining members of the development team decided to fork the project in order to regain control over future project direction. FluxBB was the result of this decision.[4]

FluxBB was announced as a finalist in SourceForge.net's 2008 Community Choice Awards in the "Best New Project" category.[6]

Although it was developed under a version 1.3 branch under both PunBB and FluxBB, it was announced in January 2009 that the then-current 1.3 branch would be discontinued, and that the future FluxBB 1.4 would revert to being based on the 1.2 codebase. As a result, version of 1.3 with all known bugs fixed was released as the "1.3-legacy" in April 2009.[7]

To maintain compatibility between the two forum systems, the PunBB developers have imported changes to the core made in FluxBB to the PunBB core, although it is foreseen that the two forums' feature sets will diverge in the future.[8]

The current release FluxBB 1.4, which is a direct upgrade from 1.2 and 1.3, is based on the 1.2 release, adding several features backported from 1.3, including UTF-8 support, a new default theme, and the ability to split and merge posts. The extension system however, is not included.[9][10]

Future development

FluxBB 2.0 will be a totally new branch from scratch, and it is a successor to 1.3. FluxBB 2.0 has had several direction changes, In the end it was decided the up-coming version would make use of a PHP framework called Laravel. In the early months of July/August 2012, FluxBB was being ported to Laravel 3.2, Later in September it was re-decided that FluxBB would make use of closed beta for Laravel 4.[11]

The up-coming FluxBB 2.0 so far has been confirmed to be released in 6 stages. Alpha 1 will be a basic port to Laravel 4 including no major features or bug fixes except a few minor ones. Alpha 2 is working on a redo of the Permissions and Administration area of the software. Alpha 3 is concentrating on a redo of the Parser and the implementation of a software-based search engine. Alpha 4 is the implementation of a extensions function which was originally attempted in FluxBB 1.3-legacy. Alpha 5 and Beta 1 are aiming to improve the functionality and quality of the software itself.[12]

Release history

Key:
Release no longer supported Release still supported Test release still supported Test release no longer supported Future release
Name Version Release date Significant changes
FluxBB 1.2 1.2.18 2008-05-09[1] A stability update for 1.2 which fixes several known issues with PunBB 1.2.17.
1.2.19 2008-07-10[13] Addresses three fairly serious security vulnerabilities and provides a fix for an issue with userlist.php.
1.2.20 2008-07-13[14] Removes the code added in include/parser.php which was causing the BBCode issue and replaces it with new code which handles the underlying issue in a different way.
1.2.21 2008-12-04[15] Fixed a subtle permissions bug.
1.2.22 2009-08-31[16] Fixes an XSS vulnerability and minor internal changes
1.2.23 2010-08-12[17] Fixes PHP unserialize() security vulnerability and other small bugs.
1.2.24 2011-08-12[18] Minor bugfixes.
FluxBB 1.3 1.3 Beta 2 2008-05-09[1] First FluxBB 1.3 beta release.
1.3-r718 2009-01-11[7] 1.3 version with obvious issues fixed.
1.3-legacy 2009-04-23[19] 1.3-r718 with minor issues fixed.
FluxBB 1.4 1.4 Beta 1 2009-05-26[20] First FluxBB 1.4 beta release.
1.4 Beta 2 2009-08-09[21] Second FluxBB 1.4 beta release.
1.4 RC1 2010-01-07[22] First FluxBB 1.4 release candidate.
1.4 RC2 2010-04-19[23] Second FluxBB 1.4 release candidate.
1.4 RC3 2010-04-22[24] Third FluxBB 1.4 release candidate.
1.4.0 2010-06-19[25] Based on 1.2, with UTF-8 support, MySQL/MySQLi dblayers that use InnoDB, split and merge posts, per-style templates, Atom and RSS feed support, new default style.
1.4.1 2010-07-22[26] First maintenance release in 1.4 branch. Fixes XSS security vulnerability, multiple bugs including SQLite stability fixes and usability enhancements.
1.4.2 2010-08-09[27] Second maintenance release in 1.4 branch. Fixes PHP unserialize() security vulnerability and other small bugs including utf8 username issues.
1.4.3 2011-01-22[28] Fixes 21 bugs and includes 25 enhancements. Now fully translatable (with install and update scripts).
1.4.4 2011-02-05[29] Fixes 9 bugs and has 16 enhancements.
1.4.5 2011-04-05[30] Fixes 21 bugs and has 13 enhancements, including batch editing functionality on the admin users page.
1.4.6 2011-08-12[31] Last feature release of the 1.4 branch. With performance, parser, updating and translation improvements.
1.4.7 2011-09-13[32] Fixes a potential SQL injection and XSS when running behind a reverse proxy.
1.4.8 2012-01-05[33] Fixes 20 bugs and has a few enhancements, including improving performance of stripping invalid UTF-8 data.
1.4.9 2012-05-06[34] Fixes 15 bugs. Last release in the 1.4-branch. Version 1.4.10 is cancelled.
FluxBB 1.5 1.5 béta 2012-04-27[35] Better Anti-SPAM. URL-tag can be enabled now.
1.5.0 2012-05-06[36] Bugfixes from the 1.4.9 release.
1.5.1 TBA Fixed bugs found in 1.5.0, statics for admins. This version is in development.
FluxBB 2.0 2.0 alpha 1 TBA Port to Laravel.
2.0 alpha 2 TBA API, OOP, template and front controller.
2.0 alpha 3 TBA Parser and search engine.
2.0 alpha 4 TBA Extensions.
2.0 alpha 5 TBA Feature changes.
2.0 bèta 1 TBA First beta release of FluxBB 2.0.
2.0.0 TBA Including features from 1.3, with additional features such as per-style templates and other unannounced features.

See also

References

  1. ^ a b c Connor (2008-05-09). "Development team announcement". FluxBB.org. Retrieved 2008-05-10.
  2. ^ Ohloh code analysis
  3. ^ Open source PHP
  4. ^ a b About FluxBB
  5. ^ "PunBB History". PunBB.
  6. ^ Sourceforge CCA 2008 finalists
  7. ^ a b Connor (2009-01-10). "The future of FluxBB". FluxBB.org. Retrieved 2009-01-10.
  8. ^ PunBB forums - PunBB 1.3 RC
  9. ^ Reines (2010-03-12). "Style competition entries". FluxBB.org. Retrieved 2010-01-16.
  10. ^ "FluxBB 2.0". FluxBB.
  11. ^ "FluxBB". Develophp.
  12. ^ "Development Roadmap". FluxBB.
  13. ^ Smartys (2008-07-10). "FluxBB 1.2.19 and 1.3 hotfixes released". FluxBB.org. Retrieved 2008-07-10.
  14. ^ Smartys (2008-07-10). "FluxBB 1.2.20 released". FluxBB.org. Retrieved 2008-07-13.
  15. ^ Connor (2008-12-04). "FluxBB 1.2.21 released". FluxBB.org. Retrieved 2008-12-04.
  16. ^ Connor (2009-08-31). "FluxBB-1.2.22 released". FluxBB.org. Retrieved 2009-10-08.
  17. ^ Reines (2010-08-12). "FluxBB-1.2.23 released". FluxBB.org. Retrieved 2010-08-12.
  18. ^ FSX (2011-08-12). "FluxBB 1.4.6 released". FluxBB.org. Retrieved 2011-08-14.
  19. ^ elbekko (2009-04-23). "FluxBB 1.3-legacy released". FluxBB.org. Retrieved 2009-04-23.
  20. ^ elbekko (2009-05-26). "FluxBB 1.4 beta 1 released". FluxBB.org. Retrieved 2009-05-27.
  21. ^ Reines (2009-08-09). "FluxBB 1.4-beta2 released". FluxBB.org. Retrieved 2010-01-08.
  22. ^ Reines (2010-01-07). "FluxBB 1.4-RC1 released". FluxBB.org. Retrieved 2010-01-08.
  23. ^ Franz (2010-04-19). "FluxBB 1.4-RC2 released". FluxBB.org. Retrieved 2010-04-20.
  24. ^ Reines (2010-04-22). "FluxBB 1.4-RC3 released". FluxBB.org. Retrieved 2010-04-23.
  25. ^ Reines (2010-06-19). "FluxBB 1.4.0 released". FluxBB.org. Retrieved 2010-06-19.
  26. ^ Franz (2010-07-22). "FluxBB 1.4.1 released". FluxBB.org. Retrieved 2010-07-26.
  27. ^ Franz (2010-08-09). "FluxBB 1.4.2 released". FluxBB.org. Retrieved 2010-08-10.
  28. ^ Reines (2011-01-22). "FluxBB 1.4.3 released". FluxBB.org. Retrieved 2011-01-24.
  29. ^ Reines (2011-02-05). "FluxBB 1.4.4 released". FluxBB.org. Retrieved 2011-02-05.
  30. ^ Franz (2011-02-05). "FluxBB 1.4.5 released". FluxBB.org. Retrieved 2011-04-05.
  31. ^ FSX (2011-08-12). "FluxBB 1.4.6 released". FluxBB.org. Retrieved 2011-08-14.
  32. ^ Reines (2011-09-13). "FluxBB 1.4.7 released". FluxBB.org. Retrieved 2012-01-11.
  33. ^ Reines (2012-01-05). "FluxBB 1.4.8 released". FluxBB.org. Retrieved 2012-01-11.
  34. ^ Reines (2012-01-05). "FluxBB 1.4.8 released". FluxBB.org. Retrieved 2012-01-11.
  35. ^ "FluxBB v1.5-beta beschikbaar!". FluxBB.org. 26-04-2012. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help); Unknown parameter |auteur= ignored (|author= suggested) (help)
  36. ^ "FluxBB v1.5-beta beschikbaar!". FluxBB.org. 26-04-2012. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help); Unknown parameter |auteur= ignored (|author= suggested) (help)
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